connecting to sde

connecting to sde

Connecting to my new SDE was exceedingly difficult. I’m not sure if it’s because it was built on postgres, but … geez!

Here are a few items you should be aware of

contrary to ESRI’s documentation, you need to do a very important piece of configuration on the client, namely add a reference to the service in the services file which is found (for most Windows users) at C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetcservices. At the bottom add the following line (replacing servicename with the name of your sde service): service name serviceportnumber/tcp #ArcSDE for RDBMS